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Carlo Maratta, (1625-Rome, 15 de diciembre de 1713) siglo XVII Italian school - The Angel giving the Crown of Thorns to Mary Sorrowful - Oil on canvas measurements: 135 x 100 cm. 142 x 106 cm framed. No frame attached. Lanfranco first studied in his hometown with Agostino Carracci and after his death he moved to Rome where in 1602 he entered the workshop of Annibale Carracci, becoming, together with Domenichino, a frequent collaborator of the great Bolognese master. Upon the death of Annibale Carracci, Lanfranco returned to Parma for a few years (1610-12), a fruitful period of his artistic training, in which he undoubtedly discovered the value of Correggio's frescoes, whose impact would be decisive for his elaboration of the illusionistic space and the intense emotionalism that then invades its figures. Correggio's mark is already evident in the dome of the Buogiovanni chapel in the Roman church of Sant' Agostino (1616) or in the ”Ecstasy of Saint Margaret of Cortona” (1620), today in the Pitti Palace in Florence, which is It became the prototype of the Baroque altar painting, as well as the frescoes in the dome of Sant'Andrea della Valle (1625-27), Lanfranco's masterpiece in Rome, which determined the development of Italian decorative painting. In 1634, the artist moved to Naples, where he remained until 1646, carrying out the grandiose fresco projects in the Gesù Nuovo (1635-37), the Charterhouse of San Martino (1637-38), the vault of SS. Apostoli (1638-46) and in the chapel of San Jenaro in the Cathedral (1641-43), works whose influence extends through Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano and Filippo Beinaschi well into the 18th century. In 1646, Lanfranco returned to Rome, where he died the following year. The artist's surviving drawings are numerous and most are in the collection of Windsor Palace; In them the influence of Correggio is evident in the luminous dissolution of the line and in the search for pictorial effects (Mena, M.: Catalog of drawings, VI, Italian drawings of the 17th century, Museo del Prado, 1983, p. 109) . Provenance: important private collection, Madrid.